Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said as the president of Shiromani Akali Dal, he takes responsibility for his party’s defeat in the Punjab assembly election and the SAD‘s core-committee will meet on March 14 to analyse the poll results. The Aam Aadmi Party scripted a stellar victory in Punjab on Thursday, winning a three-fourth majority … Read more
Punjab’s 117 assembly constituencies will vote in a single phase on Sunday. So far, Punjab has been a bipolar polity witnessing a direct contest between the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in alliance with the BJP. However, the poll pitch has changed in 2022. SAD has broken off its alliance with the BJP over … Read more
Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the Narendra Modi government at the Centre on Thursday, saying its governance is only visible in advertisements. She also accused the BJP and the AAP of using religion and sentiments for political gains. “Modiji’s governance is only in advertisements, there is no governance in the … Read more
The meteoric rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the 2014 Parliamentary polls and then in the 2017 Assembly elections in Punjab followed by its nosedive owing to ‘mass exodus’ of its legislators is proving a litmus test for the party in the February 20 Assembly polls in the state. Political observers say AAP … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said it is only the National Democratic Alliance that has a vision of a ‘Nawan’ (new) Punjab to develop its agriculture and industry and the state does not need the “hollow promises” of other parties. Addressing a virtual rally for assembly segments of Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib parliamentary constituencies, … Read more
Fast track courts for sacrilege incidents, free power up to 300 units, 33 per cent reservation for women in the police force, debt waiver for farmers having up to five acres of land are among many promises made by the BJP and its allies PLC and SAD (Sanyukt) for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls. … Read more
Eyeing to expand its base in Punjab, the BJP will nominate Sikh candidates on more than half of the total seats it will contest in next month’s assembly polls, its general secretary Tarun Chugh said on Saturday. Speaking on the BJP-led alliance, which comprises the Punjab Lok Congress and the SAD (Sanyukt), he said it … Read more
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi‘s brother Manohar Singh, who was eyeing a Congress ticket from Bassi Pathana assembly seat, on Sunday said he will contest as an independent from the constituency after the ruling party fielded its sitting legislator. In its first list of 86 candidates, the Congress on Saturday gave the ticket to … Read more
Senior Congress leader and former Punjab Minister Joginder Singh Mann on Friday quit the party, snapping his 50-year-old ties with the party. The leader from the Scheduled Caste community was miffed over “no action” against perpetrators of the alleged multi-crore post-matric SC scholarship scam and non-grant of district status to Phagwara. He resigned from the … Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday declared 15 more candidates for next year’s Punjab Assembly polls. It is the fourth list of the party and with this the total number of candidates announced by it so far reached 73. Punjab has 117 Assembly seats The announcement was made by party leader Raghav Chadha on his … Read more